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Under the Project menu item select Properties.

Make sure that the entry in the Main slot is your master file.

You should then be able to compile the whole file by selecting the 'Build Output (F7)' icon, rather than the 'Build Current File (Ctrl +F7)' icon.

I tried the same thing, using LyX 1.5.2 on Win XP SP2, using MikTeX 2.7.
The first time I tried it, it installed htlatex (really tex4ht) from my local MikTeX repository. This may not be possible for an ordinary user at uni. to do, you may have to talk to your IT people.
To see if htlatex(=tex4ht ...

I have verified this. Saving a 2.2 Mb file from Windows XP to a Linux server via Samba takes much longer with TeXnicCenter than with TeXmaker or WinEdt. However, it seems to be quicker when I mount the server using AppleTalk.

As well, running LaTeX on the 2.2 Mb file on the server takes much longer ...

Import your LaTeX document into LyX.

You may need to massage the document a little. Some things like Title Pages don't get imported properly.

Once your document is looking as it should, export it from LyX to Plain Text. As far as possible, indenting and paragraph formatting is preserved (but not ...

You can also use this format --

\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\bf{Title Page}

\frontmatter
\chapter{Preface}
this is the preface
\tableofcontents

\mainmatter
\chapter{Introduction}
Words, words, words

\backmatter
\chapter{Appendix}
A small vermiform organ in humans \ldots
\end ...

Further to the previous reply about using the geometry package.

Try using

\usepackage[ a4paper, %paper size
hmargin=1.0cm, %horizontal margin = 1 cm on each side
vmargin=1.0cm, %vertical margin = 1 cm top and bottom
% tmargin=1.2cm, %top margin = 1.2 cm
% bmargin=0.8cm, %bottom margin = 0.8 cm ...